In data giovedì 03 settembre 2009 hai scritto: > Simone Lazzaris wrote: > > Ok, but how can be syncronized the two vision of the quota, if only > > vpopmail uses vusaged ? I think that there can be only two cases > > 1) all tools use vusaged or > > 2) all tools use traditional Maildir++ quota. > > > > In any other combination, the two vision of the real maildir quota will > > go quickly out of sync. > > How would they go out of sync? They're both calculating disk usage. Any > variances would be slight. I'm assuming your quotas are in the range of > megabytes or more. If they're off by just a few kilobytes, what's the > problem?
Well, if I only put mail on the storage via vusaged, and only fetch mail via Maildir++, that means that the usage values will always be seriously wrong, right? I mean, vusaged will always see a positive usage, and Maildir++ always a negative one. They only will be right just after a resync with the filesystem, invalidating the purpose of both. In that case, it will be better to NOT have a quota tracking system. And that is precisely MY case. > The whole point of the vusage daemon is to remove the overhead of exact > quota calculation for a gain of efficiency. Todays quotas are large > enough that a few kilobytes-- heck, even a few megabytes, or a few minutes > of delay in actual vs reported disk usage, are unimportant. Having any > process care about exact numbers is silly as long as the numbers being > reported are relatively close. > > Futhermore, having more than one process actually accessing the disk is > bad. Maildir++ is an implementation that works well, but fortunately, due > to it's rather open-endedness, can easily be improved upon. > > 5.4 is not accepting feature changes, though I will look into adding a > disable option into 5.5. Perhaps removing the fprintf calls would be > enough. Further support for Maildir++ integration will be coming as well, > so perhaps there will be no need for this type of patch anyway :) Removing the fprintf is ok for MY need, but can complicate the life of peoples who *does* want the vusaged to work, but forgot to set in place its configuration file, or have a syntax error in it. In that case, you want to have fprintfs that tells you what is wrong and why. That's why I thought of a configuration setting. So maybe the best thing to do is put in place a configuration option that let the sysadmin choose the usage tracking backend, Maildir++ or vusaged -- Simone Lazzaris INTERACTIVE NETWORK SRL Via Roggia Vignola 9, 24047 Treviglio (BG) tel : +39 0363.302820 fax : +39 0363.304352 web : http://www.interactive.eu email : s.lazza...@interactive.eu
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